Environmental impact assessment and monitoring in aquaculture : requirements, practices, effectiveness and improvements / by Aquaculture Management and Conservation Service, Fisheries and Aquaculture Management Division, FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department.

Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, c2009.

xxiii, 57 p. ; 30 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i0970e/i0970e00.htm

This report includes four regional reviews on environmental impact assessment (EIA) and monitoring in aquaculture in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America; a special study on EIA as applied to salmon aquaculture; and a global review and synthesis report which draw on the findings of the review papers, covering relevant information from more than 35 countries. In addition, this document provides the report of a workshop on the subject held at FAO headquarters in Rome in September 2008. The print document includes the contents, abstract, list of contributors, executive summary and the global review; in addition, the regional reviews, workshop report and appendices (over 600 pages in total) are provided in PDF in the accompanying CD-ROM.--Publisher's description.

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